Global Warming my Rectum

[Wooly R6]

If global warming is warming the planet so much, why does it still snow!!!!
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[Pete.]

History records is being cold enough to freeze the Thames river over so you could walk from one bank to the other. They even built a bonfire on the ice.

Today the pipes didn't even freeze up on the site I was working. I remember that being a common occurance every winter but I haven't seen it happen in recent years.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[iooi]

What snow......
Linky

[craigs23]

Global Warming (if it is actually occurring and not just a cycle the planet's going through), could theoretically cause another ice age (if the amount of ice-cap melting reduces the salt levels in the sea and slows down/cuts off the Gulf Stream), as well as turning the UK into a south of France type climate with added tropical storms and flash flooding, or raising sea levels so we all have to convert to jet skis.......

....who knows - from my point of view, the weather's been pretty nuts these last few weeks....

[froggeh]

When I were a lad it snowed every year.

Now they close schools for an inch of the stuff.

It's madness I tell yer!

[0ddball]

[Phoenix]

Yes, but the planet doesn't naturally pump out the millions of tonnes of Co2 and Nitrogen Oxides we do. I don't think there's any doubt what we've been doing for the last couple of hundred years has affected the planet significantly. However I think it's more than capable of repairing itself over time if we cut it out, and maybe a 'reset' is the way, in the form of an Ice Age or similar.

[iooi]

[trevoriv]

In the early 19th century the Thames froze over and they roasted a hog on the ice and that was in May!

[alexhornet]

what i dont get with all this global warming nonsence is that they keep moaning about the rising sea levels...

so i had a thought..

if we take all the boats, ships, ocean liners etc out of the water, how much would the water level drop??

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[Phoenix]

What natural emissions? Plants? Animals? Volcanoes? Sulphur Springs? Natural occurances of Co2 are fairly balanced afaik, and I can't personally see industrial Co2 emissions being insignificant, nearly every country has millions of cars, numerous power plants, industrial furnaces and whatnot, each burning huge amounts of carbon based substances, and apparently the entire earth's reserve of oil is running low, so how can that be insignificant, it's also sustained 24/7.

You're confusing quantity with balance, naturally it's balanced, add a (relatively) small amount extra and over time it's gonna tip the scales.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Man made CO2 emissions make up about 3% of total CO2 emissions. The rest are natural.

Sure you can argue that the natural ones are balanced. They are absorbed by plants, but the plants thrive in a CO2 rich environment, absorbing more.

But you said the planet doesn't naturally pump out the millions of tonnes of Co2 and Nitrogen Oxides, when it certainly does.

All the best

Keith
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[wilbur]

[Phoenix]

However humans are estimated to produce just under a kilo of carbon dioxide per day through breathing. You're average car is about a kilo every 3miles? And that's your average economical car. Multiply that by all the vehicles in the world, the power stations, the furnaces and I think you have a fairly serious balance issue. And plants may thrive in Co2 rich environments, however surely they can still only absorb the same amount as before, animals don't. There's also a lot less plantlife than there used to be.

[Kickstart]

[ncrn]

Warming of the Earth effects different places, differently.

A temperature decrease of 1 degree Fahrenheit at the equator is equal to a 12 degree increase at the polar ice caps.

Now this might not seem like a problem because no one lives at the poles, the problem is that this can cause polar ice caps to melt, and while it will not effect a lot of people, it will still flood large areas of America (New York, San Fransisco, Florida), Bangladesh will be completely flooded off the map, many many islands, such as those in the Caribbean islands will be completely flooded. Theres many other places but I forget them.

There are large amounts of emissions caused by volcanoes, but there aren't that many that are active any more, most of the active volcanoes are under water, which is less of an issue to us emissions wise.

Due to large areas of tropical rain forest being cut down daily, at one point in South America they were cutting down an area the size of Wales, daily. We are now suffering because there is not as much plant life available to take some of the carbon out of the atmosphere. Which we are now suffering from.

Granted that the Earth is on a natural cycle of temperature increase (do some research into the Milankovitch Cycles), this is a theory, backed by evidence showing that the Earths temperature increases naturally, until it reaches a point of extreme heat, and then drops into an ice age.

We are on the point of increasing temperatures, but we are increasing a lot faster than it was predicted, and so, we are effectively accelerating towards an ice age, I'm not so sure thats a good thing.

We are able to do something about emissions, however the problem really is that America, and China, and also Australia are refusing to help out, with these being the largest contributors, there isn't much we can do till they stop.

We did manage to fix the hole in the ozone layer by working at the CFC problem, who's to say we can't undo some of the damage caused by carbon emissions, if not de-accelerate the effects.

I'd recommend watching Al Gores - An Inconvenient Truth, he presents a list of very good points without trying to force you to take his view. It's interesting to say the least.
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[ColdInsomnia]

Whilst global warming can be argued by pseudo-intellectuals, dependency on fossil fuels is something that must and will have to change, that is a fact that cannot be denied,

Sure, global warming COULD be wrong. But do we really want to take the risk? If we were to change to renewable energy tomorrow, and find out in 50 years time that global warming was a complete farce, there would be no problem.

However, if we were to ignore it and carry on as we are either;

1. Global warming intensifies and the planet falls to shit(tier) conditions.

2. Global warming is proven untrue, yet our dependency on fossil fuels becomes the big problem and I can see a lot of wars - political, corporate and perhaps even militaristic evolving from such a scenario. Rest assured that fossil fuels are run by the most powerful (read; richest) people on the planet and people of that status are not willing to give it up to renewable sources.
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[_Will_]

If a cow produces as much co2 as a landrover, i'd hate to see what came out the arse end of a T-Rex
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[PIEMON]

i have 100% proof off global warming.

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[m99dws]

I'm partially to blame for greenhouse gases, as my previous house had 2 greenhouses.

[owdamer]

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